Word: accents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also brought down to size a bit on the British stage. In the National's Death of a Salesman, Willy is played by Alun Armstrong (a veteran of musicals like Les Miserables as well as the original cast of Nicholas Nickleby), whose tidy little mustache, hangdog expression and Brooklyn accent anchor him firmly in the dreary everyday. Armstrong's Willy is a small man, too downtrodden even to rail with much conviction. It's an elegant production, the dominant stage image a tree in full blossom, with a broken trunk. The big scenes are somewhat muted (Marjorie Yates' Linda...
This time they are the mismanagers of a commercial zoo that has been acquired by a Murdochian media buccaneer (Kline plays him too, complete with Down Under accent). They are charged with getting its profit margin up to his brutal rate (20%). Their plan is to dispense with all the zoo's sweet little fuzzballs and stock the place exclusively with man-eaters. If violence sells on TV and in the movies, why shouldn't it do the same for them...
...master's degree in engineering. A translator for U.S. troops in China during World War II, he instructed his wife that their sons were to stick to Taiwanese and Mandarin Chinese and not learn English until they got to America for a better chance of speaking it without an accent. As Sonia Ho recalls in careful but imperfect English, "When we first come to U.S., we don't know any words. David would come home from school and say, 'I don't know what they talking about.' I'd say, 'Oh, what are we going to do?'" Says David...
...masked assailant is described as 5'11" with a Hispanic accent. Both suspects were wearing dark clothing. No further description was available...
...attention quickly turned back to the strange disappearence of the Buddha book and pamphlets numbers 1 and 2. The periodical lady had been friendly, almost too friendly. What did she have to hide? Maybe a Russian accent...